Miles Straume quotes from Lost

Miles Straume

[to Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Juliet, Hurley, Jin and Sayid] Has it occurred to any of you that your buddy's actually gonna cause the thing he says he's trying to prevent? Perhaps that little nuke is the incident? So maybe the best thing to do... is nothing? [No-one responds] I'm glad you all thought this through.

Miles

And as you can see, Hugo here has assumed the leadership position, so that's... pretty great.

Jack

You need to put the guns down.

Miles

What?

Jack

Put the guns down.

Miles

Now why would I do that?

Jack

Because our friends are out in the jungle right holding a gun at your head and his head, so I'm gonna forget about the misunderstanding, just put the guns down!

Miles

Come on, how stupid do you think I-

Jack

I don't know, Miles. How stupid are you?

Sayid Jarrah

What are your names?

Daniel Faraday

Er, I'm Daniel Faraday, and this is Miles...

Miles Straume

Don't tell him my last name.

Daniel Faraday

I guess it's just Miles.

Sayid Jarrah

What do you do for a living, Daniel?

Daniel Faraday

I'm a physicist. Well, I guess you could call me a physicist, I don't really like being pigeon-holed into one...

Miles Straume

Dan, I swear to God, you say one more word, I'm gonna break your fingers.

Sayid Jarrah

And what do you do, Miles?

Miles Straume

[sarcastically] I collect soil samples.

Sayid Jarrah

Oh, that's nice. Well, maybe you can help me. You say you're not here on a rescue mission, and the world at large believes us to be dead. But here we are alive and well, and you don't seem remotely surprised to see us.

Miles Straume

[sarcastically] Oh my God, you guys were on Oceanic Flight 815! Wow! [normally] That better?

Sayid

Naomi, were you close to her?

Miles

Nope. Met her on the boat.

Sayid

You don't seem particularly affected by her death.

Miles

Sure I'm affected. She was hot and I dug her accent.

Kate

Nice.

Sayid

And this woman, Charlotte. You don't really care about her, do you?

Miles

Define care.

Sayid

So much for camaraderie.

Miles

Yeah, gee, who's the one going after one of their crash buddies with guns? Actually, I do care about Locke. Maybe you can tell me how he managed to split your happy little family in half.

Sayid

(glances at Kate) There was a fundamental debate as to whether your people were coming to rescue us... or kill us.

Miles

And which side did you land on?

Sayid

I let you know when I decide.

Miles Straume

Where the hell did they go, Tubby?

Oh, awesome. The ship sent us another Sawyer.

Ben Linus

You've arranged this meeting so you could blackmail me?

Miles Straume

It's extortion if you want to get technical.

John Locke

Miles offered his loyalty in exchange for the money. But as I haven't seen a bank on the island, I didn't think it worth mentioning.

Somethin' funny?

Miles Straume

Linus will find a way to get it.

And how will he do that?

Miles Straume

He wants to survive. And considering a week ago you had a gun to his head, and tonight he's eating pound cake... I'd say he's a guy who gets what he wants.

Sawyer

First things first. Give me your shirt.

Daniel

My shirt?

Sawyer

Yeah.

Daniel

I really think we have far more pressing matters then me giving you a shirt. How about we just keep moving, okay?

Sawyer

How about we call a time out so you can tell us what the hell's going on?

Daniel

How about you trust me?

Sawyer

Trust you? I don't even know you!

Daniel

We really do not have time for me to try to explain. You have no idea how difficult that would be for me to try to explain this-this phenomenon to a quantum physicist. That would be difficult. So for me to try to explain whatevers happened-

Charlotte

Oy! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?

Sawyer

Shut it, ginger, or you're getting one too. Now talk.

Daniel

This island... Think of the island like a record spinning on a turntable. Only now, that record is skipping. Whatever Ben Linus did down at the Orchard station... I think it may have... dislodged us.

Miles

Dislodged us from what?

Daniel

... Time.

Charlotte

Hey, you think he's looking for us?

Miles

Who?

Charlotte

Widmore

Miles

It took him, like, 20 years to find this place the first time. I'll start holding my breath now.

Jin

Please, translate!

Sawyer

You heard the man, translate!

Miles

Dude, he's Korean. I'm from Encino.

Daniel

[muttering] Not gonna tell... I'm not gonna tell...

Sawyer

[whispering to Juliet] Where's Red?

Juliet

I dont know.

Daniel

[mutters indistinctly] No. I won't do it. I won't tell her. I won't do it. Won't...

Juliet

Daniel? Are you okay?

Daniel

I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna tell her.

Juliet

Daniel, where's Charlotte?

Daniel

[Voice breaking] She's not here. She... She's gone.

Juliet

Where?

Daniel

She's... dead. She's dead. There was another flash, and... and she was... she was just gone.

Daniel

Her... body just... [crying] disappeared. She moved on, and we stayed.

Juliet

I'm so sorry.

Sawyer

Hold on. Wait a minute. We "stayed"? We're not traveling through time anymore? You saying it's over?

Daniel

Of course it's over. Wherever we are now... whenever we are now... we're here for good. :[To Juliet, or perhaps to himself] I won't do it.

Juliet

Okay. Okay.

Daniel

I won't. I'm not gonna--I'm--I'm...

Juliet

Okay.

Daniel

I'm not gonna--I w--I won't.

Juliet

Okay. [pats Dan on head] Okay.

Daniel

...Tell...

Sawyer

Okay. Swell. Until Dan checks back in, I say we head back to the beach. When Locke gets back with everybody, that's where they'll be looking for us.

Miles

The beach? What, you didn't get enough flaming arrows shot at you? And your camp is gone. Why bother?

Juliet

Sawyer's right, Miles. We should go back to the beach. We survived there before. We can do it again.

Miles

[To nobody in particular] Or maybe when we get there, you'll--you'll wanna go back to the Orchid again. And then when that gets boring, we can head back to the beach. It's the only two plans you people have.

Miles Straume

What the hell are you doing, Tubby?

Checking to see if I'm disappearing.

Miles Straume

What?

"Back to the Future", man. We came back in time to the island and changed stuff. So if little Ben dies, he'll never grow up to be big Ben, who's the one who made us come back here in the first place. Which means we can't be here. And therefore, dude? We don't exist.

Miles Straume

You're an idiot.

So this conversation we're having right now...we already had it.

Miles Straume

Yes!

Then what am I gonna say next?

Miles Straume

I don't know.

Ha! Then your theory is wrong!

Miles Straume

For the thousandth time, you dingbat, the conversation already happened, but not for you and me. For you and me, it's happening right now.

Okay, answer me this. If all this already happened to me, then...why don't I remember any of it?

Miles Straume

Because once Ben turned that wheel, time isn't a straight line for us anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now.

Say that again.

Miles Straume

Shoot me. Please. Please!

Aha! I can't shoot you. Because if you die in 1977, then you'll never come back to the island on the freighter 30 years from now.

Miles Straume

I can die because I've already come to the island on the freighter. Any of us can die because this is our present.

But you said Ben couldn't die because he still has to grow up and become the leader of the Others.

Miles Straume

Because this is his past.

But when we first captured Ben, and Sayid, like, tortured him, then why wouldn't he remember getting shot by that same guy when he was a kid?

Miles Straume

[beat] Huh. I hadn't thought of that.

Huh.

This island has a number of deceased individuals... residing on it, and as this man is the one responsible for their being deceased, we believe they can supply invaluable information as to his whereabouts.

Miles Straume

As much as hunting down a mass murderer sounds really safe, uh, I'm--I'm gonna pass. Thanks for the audition.

My employer is willing to pay you $1.6 million.

Miles Straume

When do we leave?